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Government Launches Open Data Consultation (5 August 2011)

The Government has launched a consultation on Open Data. The Open Data consultation paper sets out the government's proposed approach for transparency and open data strategy which is aimed at establishing a culture of openness and transparency in public services.

The consultation gives colleges and universities the opportunity to contribute their views on the following issues:

How to enhance a "right to data" by establishing stronger rights for individuals, businesses and other actors to obtain, use and re-use data from public service providers

How to enforce this right and set transparency standards

How public service providers might be held to account for delivering open data

How to ensure collection and publication of the most useful data

How to make the internal workings of government and the public sector as open as possible

How far government can help to stimulate enterprise and market-making through the use of open data

Issues highlighted of particular relevance to colleges and universities as public service providers include:

how making more data proactively available can reduce the administrative burden associated with responding to Freedom of Information requests

what might the resource implications be for colleges and universities of an enhanced right to data and

The consultation paper invites views from the public and public service providers including colleges and universities on aspects of data policy, such as charging, licensing and regulation of public sector information produced by the PDC for re-use, which need to be determined in order to successfully establish a PDC later this year.

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